Sunday, March 4, 2012

Man in Philadelphia jams cell phone calls on city bus

The news source that I use is Yahoo. I use this because of my busy life, I look at my emails and that is the first thing that pops up. I was scanning through the news feeds when this one caught my eye......

This wasn't the same video that I saw on Yahoo but it is the same story. The other story has the guy, Eric, talking to reporters in Philadelphia. The main story is about a guy named, Eric, who uses a jammier to jam cell phone signals. He did this saying, "A lot of people are extremely loud, no sense of just privacy or anything. When it becomes a bother, that's when I screw on the antenna and flip the switch. I guess I'm taking the law into my own hands and quite frankly, I'm proud of it." This contraption that he is using is ILLEGAL. It can not be used because it can stop frequencies to ambulances or cop cars. That can be very dangerous. After this story I was interested in seeing how many different sights I can get the same story from.
   The first site that I got was as site called Huliq. This site had the same information as yahoo it just didn't have a video to match up with their news about it. It had the same quotes from the yahoo site but they also had information about someone on a train that was kicked off for talking on her cell phone. This is the video that was on it.
 http://www.huliq.com/10061/cell-phones-jammed-bus-philly-man-busted


The other site was a site called The Blaze. As yahoo and Huliq it had the same quotes but this time it had the video for the event. The only thing different was that it talked about a Japanesse invention that stops people from talking. It is called a "SpeechJammer". It muddles the speakers own words. It works by repeating the same thing that the speaker said that makes them pause in what they were saying. It confuses them.






http://www.theblaze.com/stories/philly-man-took-it-upon-himself-to-quiet-city-buses-by-jamming-cellphones/

The next one I saw was called The Daily Caller. They had the same quotes as all the rest with the same video. It also had some photos of the guy who did it. Like most of the sites to they had advertisement and more news on other things.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/02/philadelphia-man-jams-cellphones-on-public-transportation-video/

The last site I got was the main site it was from. The NBC Philadelphia News was the main source that Yahoo got the story from. They were the ones who found the man on the bus jamming the phones. They did the interview with him and found out the truth about the whole ordeal. They found out that the device was ILLEGAL and let the man know what they found out about the device. Their site had lots of stories from their state with this one and advertisements.  This one was very close to the one that was on Yahoo with the quotes and everything.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Rider-Jams-Cell-Phones-on-SEPTA-Buses/140983823

From what I got from this assignment is that I trust Yahoo with their news. They get it from reliable sources and tell you the main details and don't put the extra garbage that you don't need to read. They get to the point and stick with it. I will continue to use Yahoo as a news source.



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